| 漢字 | 詞類 | 意義 |
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| 堂 | n. | hall; reception room; meeting-place; court of justice; polite way of referring to a friend's mother |
| 妗 | n. | the wife of mother's brother; the wife of wife's brother |
| 妣 | n. | mother in general (arch.); a deceased mother; woman ancestors |
| 姊 | n. | elder sister; mother (arch.) |
| 姨 | n. | wife's sister; mother’s sister, aunt; father’s concubine |
| 威 | n. | awe; pomp; mother-in-law (arch.) |
| 娘 | n. | girl; woman; ma, mum, mother; wife |
| 婆 | n. | old woman, mother-in-law |
| 媼 | n. | a woman; an old woman; mother |
| 媽 | n. | old woman; ma, mother, mum, mummy; waiting woman; nurse |
| 嫗 | n. | mother; woman; old woman |
| 嬤 | n. | grannie, granny; mother |
| 嬭 | n. | mother; nurse (one who breastfeeds) |
| 孃 | n. | mother |
| 屺 | n. | mountain without vegetation (some give the opposite meaning);residence of one's mother |
| 恃 | n. | mother |
| 慈 | n. | mother |
| 母 | n. | mother; dam; origin; parent |
| 獍 | n. | a legendary tiger-like unfilial beast that eats its own mother |
| 珧 | n. | mother-of-pearl |
| 舅 | n. | mother's brother; wife's brother; uncle |
| 萱 | n. | tawnty daylily; hemerocallis flava; mother's room |
| 萲 | n. | tawnty daylily; hemerocallis flava; mother's room |
| 騍 | n. | mare, mother horse, jenny (prefix to female animal) |
| 鴞 | n. | an owl; a fabulous bird which is said to eat the whole of its mother without the head |